You know...

posted by [identity profile] kittenpants.livejournal.com at 06:58pm on 01/06/2006
I was just thinking about my kiss-of-death word yesterday. ceiling

I had such bad stage fright that I was sweating and on the verge of throwing up, passing out, or both. So I barrelled ahead without pausing to think.

I've been spectacularly twitchy about "i before e, except after c, or when sounding like 'ay' as in neighbor and weigh" ever since.
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posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 07:18pm on 01/06/2006
I wonder if everyone remembers their killer word (or victory word for those rare few who win it all).

Seems to me that spelling bees are in a sense cruel because the top spellers at that age are likely to have the worst stagefright - they're the bookish ones, not usually the outgoing ones.
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